UIToolbar disappears after dismissing Modal View Controller - iphone

I'm aware some of you may not be familiar with Monotouch, but this could certainly be a general iOS issue rather than a specific Monotouch issue.
I'm recreating an app with similar functionality to the default mail app:
This is a simple recreation of our app. It's a UIView which contains a UITableView and a UIToolbar. It's loaded from a XIB file (which contains accompanying view controller code). This view is a UITabController view (though I'm sure this shouldnt affect things?).
This has been pushed from a navigation Controller using
controller.PushViewController(inboxItem.Controller, true);
(where inboxItem is a custom object I've made, the Controller property being the inboxItem's view controller).
Pressing the right hand button on the toolbar presents a new modal view (compose new message) - which does its thing and no matter which way its dismissed, upon dismissal, the UIToolbar disappears. However, if I am to click on another tab then click back onto this tab, the Toolbar reappears. Is this a redraw issue?
Am I doing something wrong with the way I'm structuring my app? Or have I happened to stumble across some bizarre iOS/Monotouch bug? (I'm hoping it's for the former - so I can improve my iOS development).

I solved the problem. Basically, what was happening was when the ModalView was being presented and then dismissed, the toolBar was being moved down by 44 pixels each time.
In my example, the toolBar is placed above a UITabBar, so when the modal view was dismissed the toolbar was being moved out of view. I'm not sure why this is happening but I'll be sure to file appropriate bug reports.
One quick and (very) dirty way around this is to move the toolBar up 44 pixels when displaying the modalview, so that when it is dismissed, it will move it back down to the appropriate position.

Related

Swift navigation bar animation issue

I am at a loss with what is potentially a simple fix.
I have a basic ViewController with a UINavigationController, and a UISearchBar embedded.
Basic view layout
When I PUSH a new UIViewController onto the Nav - I get a brief animation issue where a black background appears, and also the cancel button doesn't disappear.
Animation glitch
It's only brief, but annoying enough.
When I return back using the back button, the search bar reverts to white, and then switches to red.
Back display issue
I wondered if I had configured something wrong, so I created a fresh project and left everything with the defaults. Yet I get the same issue.
Stripped back and the same issue
I'm using xCode 9.3 - with swift 4.1
Any ideas?
Check the extendedLayout settings of your view controllers (these can be set in code or in the storyboard editor). They need to be the same for both view controllers or you'll get this animation glitch.
In your case the problem might be the embedded search bar. It seems to be present only for one of the view controllers. You've got navigation bars with two different heights because of that. The framework doesn't respond well to that...

What to do about "Finishing up a navigation transition in an unexpected state. Navigation Bar subview tree might get corrupted."

I'm writing an iPhone app using Appcelerator Titanium Mobile. I am hiding and showing the tab group based on what window has focus.
dashWin.addEventListener("focus",function(e) {
if (dashWin.tabGroupVisible == true) {
dashWin.tabGroupVisible=false;
tabGroup.animate({bottom:-50,duration:500});
}
});
The code above hides the tab group when dashWin receives a focus event. However, I see this message in the Titanium console when the event fires while running in the iPhone simulator:
Finishing up a navigation transition in an unexpected state. Navigation Bar subview tree might get corrupted.
A Google search turns up one result: Another StackOverflow question that may have a hint as to what's going on.
I got this error when I linked Action Segue or Selection Segue from one view to another view through storyboard and performed the same segue programmatically again, which makes the navigation controller perform the same segue twice.
2 solutions for this case:
Removing the code that pushes the view. Just let storyboard perform the segue for you. This is good for most situations.
Replacing Action Segue or Selection Segue with Manual Section and do - (void)performSegueWithIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier sender:(id)sender by yourself. You may find this solution useful when you want to customize the behavior of segue according to the sender.
Usually a tab group acts as the root of your app's navigation. When a user taps a tab, that tab's window is focused.
Next, when a user triggers an action that requires a new window appear, it usually appears either modally or on top (in the navigation stack sense) of the current window. In the latter case, tell the current tab to open the new window.
If you set the tabBarHidden property to false (when you create the new window), the tab bar will be hidden for you when the new window is opened by the current tab.
Will this more standard approach work for you?
I had segues that were leading back to my main navigation controller which was causing this. I fixed the problem by setting the main navigation controller back to the top of the stack. Here is the code:
- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}
Recently, I've faced the same problem. The reason was:
-I was trying to pop view controller twice by mistake.
you can check this crash by setting breakpoints on push and pop View controllers

iPad, UITextView, and firstResponder issues

I'm writing a universal iOS app that a text entry component to it. When the view with the UITextView in it is shown, I call [UITextView becomeFirstResponder] so the keyboard pops up. When the user taps done/save, the view controller calls pop on it's navigation controller, and the keyboard should disappear automatically.
This works fine on the iPhone/iPod touch, but on the iPad, the keyboard remains up, with the accessory view, even after the view is popped. I've tried everything: checking leaks with Instruments, static analyzer, explicitly calling [UITextView resignFirstResponder] multiple times, heap shots, and no matter what I can't get the keyboard to disappear once the view controller is popped or figure out why the heck it wouldn't be. This is a huge issue because the 'previous' view controller in the UINavigationController hierarchy doesn't have a text field, and the accessory view remains on top of the keyboard and when the buttons on it are tapped, they send messages to the deallocated view controller, causing a crash.
The only difference I can name between the iPhone/iPad version is that the iPhone version, of course, presents the navigation controller modally over the full screen, while on the iPad the navigation controller is presented in UIModalPresentationFormSheet.
I hope this is enough information to allow someone to diagnose the issue. If it's not, I'll post a sample project.
If I recall correctly, the keyboard always shows up while something is presented in UIModalPresentationFormSheet. Try something different and see if that works.

Current UIView Questions iPhone SDK

I posted earlier but am running into similar problems again. Basically the way that my app is setup there is a top bar that is basically just a static image that has UIButtons placed on top of it. That is the Main View Controller and is persistent no matter what view is shown beneath it. I can't use a navigation controller because it is not possible to change the height and I need the bar to be significantly larger than a navbar. However my bar is functioning in much the same way. There is a "Home" Button, a "Back" Button and several destination buttons.
I understand how to switch views from say the home screen. My confusion comes with the back button. In order to press back the app is going to need to know what view is currently being displayed so that it can be removed from view and a new subview can be added. Ideally I would use the UINavigationController so that I can push and pop views which is really what I want to do here, however that is not possible because of the visual problem.
Does anybody know of a method that returns the current displayed view so I could do something like the following
[currentview.view removeFromSuperView];
[self.view insertSubview:experienceViewController.view atIndex:0]
You can use UINavigationController with the nav bar hidden. Put the nav controller inside a view that does have your jumbo toolbar and you'll have access to the push/pop behavior you're looking for.

How to present a modal view controller with fixed UIToolbar?

I am trying to set up a Modal View Controller, that that lies below a fixed toolbar. therefore the toolbar is supposed to stay on top while the modal view rolls in.
the Safari-App does that for example, when hitting the bookmarks-button. the toolbar stays, the buttons change..
I tried a couple of things like pushing the toolbar to the front and ended up not using the presentModalViewController method at all, and animating the new View manually into a subview instead. but that brought a couple of other issues along.
I'm not sure what you are saying, when you press add bookmark in safari, a new modal view shows with no tool bar. The navigation bar at the top is not a tool bar if that is what you mean. They are UIToolbarItem set into self.navigationItem.
All modal views I've seen are animated until they take up the whole of the screen. Those modal-like views that only scroll up to a certain point in some apps, are done by hand. Maybe you can cover those issues encountered when doing this by hand in another post?